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Spring  2019  -  Opera Essentials
Opera Essentials is a concise but comprehensive exploration of opera and the extraordinary role it has played in four centuries of Europe's and the world's culture. Each episode traces a dual aspect of opera's nature: first as it unfolded over time, then as it is emerges from close examination of a selected example.
 
Mar 26  |  Introduction  
Drawing the big picture in a timeline that relates opera to the rest of history and the arts during the past four centuries.
 
Apr 2  |  Poem and Score 
Opera's texts have two crucial components, blended yet distinct, each with its own history, process and priorities.
 
Apr 9  |  Italy and the World  
Italy got the project started; the rest of Europe admired, imported, imitated -- and then rebelled. But the interaction did not stop there.
 
Apr 16  |  Gods and Peasants   
Opera tells stories of all kinds, but its subject matter evolved in very particular ways that are full of importance for the evolution of the form.
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Apr 30  |  Voice and Orchestra 
The key performing elements, both of which evolved radically over time.
 
May 7  |  Sound and Sight  
How the senses relate in operatic drama (spoiler alert: it is controversial).
 
May 14  |  Stars and Fans 
Opera in the world involves not just creators and their creations, but performers and a public.
 
May 21  |  Art and Commerce 
A short history of operatic funding, with fortunes made and lost, and of the perennial aspiration to surpass the bounds of the marketplace.  ​

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Wagner 2019

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Fall 2015

Spring 2015

Fall 2014

Spring 2014

Fall 2013

Spring 2013

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